Today's Verse: 31 July 2009

Good morning young loafers
Play hookey with me
Let's lie in the grass and stare up at the trees'
Canopies
Let's chuckle, get excited about
Freedom and license and ease
The day seems like endless
And we're not afraid to die
That's a joke, isn't it
Irrelevant
What do we care for the inanimate
The unfeeling, inert
We've got the whole day ahead of us
Nothing but whatever we please
Let's lie here, savour luscious memories
Of pleasure and joy and pleasant surprises
Let's lie here, intrepid, fearless
Let's be ridiculous
Come loaf with me

Today's Verse: 24 July 2009

Do you want to see

What it looks like inside me

You can't take it out

Without messing it up

But let me tell you

There's strange shapes

Packed tight and dripping

A factory of life forms

Working hard

Keeping me alive

From seed to sprout

To old, rotten lumber

I won't fall apart

I'll dissolve

Inside out

That's where I'm coming from

That's what makes me attractive

Or is it my wig

Or some hoax I wrote or spoke at dinner

Or the way I resemble your

Papa or mama

Or fuck like your brother could

I don't mind seeming someone else for you

You'd do the same thing too

Deep down inside we know

We make it up

As we go along

Taking a chance

Fifty-fifty

On nothing

En la casa de las letras

The Original Narcofood

From the Italian Futurist Cookbook, published in 1932, a few choice recipes:

Drum Roll of Colonial Fish: Poached mullet marinated in milk, liqueur, capers, and red pepper and stuffed with date jam, banana, and pineapple. "It will then be eaten to a continuous rolling of drums."

Words in Liberty Sea Platter: A watermelon half at sail across a sea of endive, with a tiny captain sculpted from Dutch cheese commanding a crew of calves' brains cooked in milk. "The sea and the ship are sprinkled with cinnamon or red pepper."

The Excited Pig: "A whole salami, skinned, is served upright on a dish containing some very hot black coffee mixed with a good deal of eau de Cologne."

White and Black: "A one-man show on the internal walls of the Stomach consisting of free-form arabesques of whipped cream sprinkled with lime-tree charcoal. Contra the blackest indigestion. Pro the whitest teeth."